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noun

a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.

a line of persons or things so arranged: The petitioners waited in a row.

a line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater: seats in the third row of the balcony.

a street formed by two continuous lines of buildings.

Music. tone row.

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Checkers. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank.

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verb (used with object)

to put in a row (often followed by up).

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Row is always a great word to know.

So is major seventh. Does it mean:

rest equivalent in duration to a whole note

first or root note and the seventh in a major scale

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Idiom

hard/long row to hoe, a difficult task or set of circumstances to confront: At 32 and with two children, she found attending medical school a hard row to hoe.

Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English row(e); compare Old English rǣw

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To get the encoded message, copy down the entire first row and append the entire second row.

Not only are fewer on death row actually being executed.

By alternating a compost trench between three rows every year, you can give each compost row a year to decompose.

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To get the encoded message, copy down the entire first row and append the entire second row.

Not only are fewer on death row actually being executed.

By alternating a compost trench between three rows every year, you can give each compost row a year to decompose.

If one drug didn't kill the death row inmate, one of the other two would.

Then there was a dirt road followed by another row of houses.

Line up a row of them in small terra-cotta pots down the center and you're done.

Death row is full of those who plead their innocence, and the world is full of those who despise the death penalty.

Instead the walls are lined with row after row of identical plaques.

Grandstanding in the run-up to elections has fuelled the row.

Solar farms are impressive to look at, with row upon row of shiny rectangles angling toward the sun.

In each cell, put the number you get by dividing the column number by the row number.

Offshore, big green sea turtles row slowly by under your boat.

Pole beans climb a trellis at the west end of the row.

If three singletons appeared in a row on one of the eight boards, that ticket was probably a winner.

Benzing moved on to a row of muscat ottonel, a variety he had worked on for years in his back yard.

Line up the first row with the second row, right sides together, once all the rows of squares are sewn.

In both cases, innocent people can be sent to death row while the guilty walk.

The only difference is a row of yellow spots running along the wings of the black swallowtail.

Plant through black plastic sheeting and cover with fabric row covers to increase heat.

The premise is that you keep your hands in one place, with your fingers always on the home row.

The machine scans the boxes in each row and applies one of six rules to generate the row underneath.

Start the next row with a corner block or a half block, so the blocks will be stacked one on top of two.

All you had to do was row out to it in a boat and, when you were underneath, prop a ladder against her and scramble up.

The grating splits the laser beam into a row of circles.

Sow the seeds, then water and cover the bed with a floating row cover.

Posted online, the sick writings of a convicted murderer spew undying hatred from death row.

The runner wins the game if he reaches the southernmost row of grid spaces.

Use floating row covers until the weather warms or plants begin flowering.

Her teeth arrived in a double row on her lower jaw, and she suffered from an enlarged liver.

My grammar checker chewed me out for using more than three nouns in a row.

Use floating row covers to prevent adults from reaching plants.

Essentially, the charge in each row is moved from one site to the next, a step at a time.

They had blown into another row of oysters and gotten tangled.

Once you load a photo from your camera roll, you see nothing but a row of six icons across the bottom of the screen.

Enhance narrow in-ground beds with a row of potted plants.

But even then, the fact that a certain set of numbers must appear once in every row and column still constrains the puzzle a lot.

In regions with cool or short seasons, extend growing time by using floating row covers and clear plastic mulches.

Each row of holes punched in the cards corresponds to one row of thread in the design.

Set a row of small-leafed vines in pots on top of a wall and let them cascade at will.

Swim or row ashore and cruise through the old military barracks.

Cover vegetables with floating row covers to exclude leafhoppers.

For planting depth and row spacing, follow the instructions on the seed packet.

Continue adding pods until the outer row is complete.

In this lesson, students investigate several controversial issues in the criminal justice system relating to death row.

My own prime location is at the left-hand end of a row or table.

Split lengthwise by a row of hills, this island is home to many.

Browse the city's new museum row for culture and treats.

He glanced at the first row and saw a student with four clickers spread out before him.

The lenders say they are being defamed, in a row that raises questions about their future in the state.

Install the application and the bottom row of icons on the main screen.

For years she has studied here, on the second floor of the row house she shares with her husband.

Ask them to write the name of each of the towns in a separate row in the first column.

Because they are all coming from the same row of seats in the mezzanine, all the light has exactly the same color.

Plus, you can print out individual records for each row in your excel file and take it with you to the archive.

Bodies from a middle row of tombs, untainted by even the rare moisture from rain or.

The second dirt road was followed by the last row of houses.

When posting, try hitting it twice in a row every now and then.

Today a new crop sprouts in the former cornfields: row upon row of cookie-cutter houses.

If you don't want the door-opening responsibility, try to sit one row away.

Schilling has published the index for the second year in a row.

In the first row of the left-hand column, ask them to write the name of this culture and the country where these people live.

And the traditional windbreak row of evergreens west of the house is still a good idea.

Many people believe that obtaining a top administrative position without having worked as a faculty member is a tough row to hoe.

Model filling in the first row of the chart based on your think-aloud.

These slideshows aimed at craming six pages of ads in a row are so annoying.

Only perhaps a dozen of the code talkers showed up to the event, sitting in the front row in brilliant yellow formal garb.

Get up with everyone and walk to the end of the pew, letting everyone out of the row.

My seat was barely visible across the cabin, against a window in the next to last row.

There are plenty of other folks on death row that deserve the attention of the media, this guy was not one of them.

Protect from birds with floating row covers or netting.

Williams was sitting in the row behind me at the panel discussion on new media.

Explain that alliteration is created when words in a row start with the same sound.

You're not limited to lining up a row of patio chairs and a simple dining group anymore.

If the shutter speed is slow, then each row is slightly blurred, leading to a blurred overall image.

Likewise, it's beneficial to answer multiple questions correctly in a row.

Floating row cover is a lightweight cloth that is laid on top of crops to impede pests.

He'd taught the same course five semesters in a row and was scheduled to keep teaching it.

Boston stormed back to win the next four games in a row.

And he's ready for the scientific row his latest work is likely to engender.

But remember, that's far from the experience of the lower-division undergraduate sitting in the back row of a lecture hall.

On one side, row after row of calf-high bushes presented a perfect scene of modern mechanized agriculture.

California's wild salmon fishery has been closed two years in a row.

So get your ducks in a row with the partners first.

The house is organized as a single row of rooms facing the water, with a master suite at either end.

One was on death row for raping and killing a young artist after a carjacking.

For the first time in a generation, the number of inmates on death row has dropped.

It is far from a national trend, but some legislators have begun to have second thoughts about the high cost of death row.

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verb (used without object)

to propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like.

verb (used with object)

to propel (a vessel) by the leverage of an oar or the like.

to convey in a boat that is rowed.

to convey or propel (something) in a manner suggestive of rowing.

to require, use, or be equipped with (a number of oars): The captain's barge rowed twenty oars.

to use (oarsmen) for rowing.

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to perform or participate in by rowing: to row a race.

to row against in a race: Oxford rows Cambridge.

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noun

an act, instance, or period of rowing: It was a long row to the far bank.

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an excursion in a rowboat: to go for a row.

Origin:
before 950; Middle English rowen, Old English rōwan; cognate with Old Norse rōa; akin to Latin rēmus oar. Compare rudder

Related forms

row·a·ble, adjective

row·er, noun

un·der·row·er, noun

noun

a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion.

noise or clamor.

verb (used without object)

to quarrel noisily.

verb (used with object)

Chiefly British. to upbraid severely; scold.

Origin:
1740–50; origin uncertain

Synonyms
1. spat, tiff, scrap, scrape, set-to.

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World English Dictionary

row¹ (rəʊ)

—n
1.	an arrangement of persons or things in a line: a row of chairs
2.	a. chiefly (Brit) a street, esp a narrow one lined with identical houses
	b. (capital when part of a street name): Church Row
3.	a line of seats, as in a cinema, theatre, etc
4.	maths a horizontal linear arrangement of numbers, quantities, or terms, esp in a determinant or matrix
5.	a horizontal rank of squares on a chessboard or draughtboard
6.	in a row in succession; one after the other: he won two gold medals in a row
7.	a hard row to hoe a difficult task or assignment

[Old English rāw, rǣw; related to Old High German rīga line, Lithuanian raiwe strip]

row² (rəʊ)

—vb
1.	to propel (a boat) by using oars
2.	(tr) to carry (people, goods, etc) in a rowing boat
3.	to be propelled by means of (oars or oarsmen)
4.	(intr) Compare scull to take part in the racing of rowing boats as a sport, esp in eights, in which each member of the crew pulls one oar
5.	(tr) to race against in a boat propelled by oars: Oxford row Cambridge every year

—n
6.	an act, instance, period, or distance of rowing
7.	an excursion in a rowing boat

[Old English rōwan; related to Middle Dutch roien, Middle High German rüejen, Old Norse rōa, Latin rēmus oar]

'rower²

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'rowing²

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row³ (raʊ)

—n
1.	a noisy quarrel or dispute
2.	a noisy disturbance; commotion: we couldn't hear the music for the row next door
3.	a reprimand
4.	informal give someone a row to scold someone; tell someone off

—vb (often foll by with)
5.	to quarrel noisily
6.	archaic (tr) to reprimand

[C18: origin unknown]

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Word Origin & History

row

"line of people or things," O.E. ræw "a row, line," from P.Gmc. *rai(h)waz (cf. M.Du. rie, Du. rij "row;" O.H.G. rihan "to thread," riga "line;" Ger. Reihe "row, line, series;" O.N. rega "string"), possibly from PIE base *rei- "to scratch, tear, cut" (cf. Skt. rikhati "scratches," rekha "line").

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Meaning "a number of houses in a line" is attested from mid-15c., originally chiefly Scottish and northern English. Row-house is first recorded 1936, Amer.Eng. Phrase a hard row to hoe first attested 1835, in writing of Davy Crockett.

row

"propel with oars," O.E. rowan (class VII strong verb; past tense reow, pp. rowen), from P.Gmc. *ro- (cf. O.N. roa, Du. roeien, W.Fris. roeije, M.H.G. rüejen), from PIE base *ere- "to row" (cf. Skt. aritrah "oar;" Gk. eressein "to row," eretmon "oar," trieres "trireme;" L. remus "oar;" Lith. iriu

"to row," irklas "oar;" O.Ir. rome "oar," O.E. roðor "rudder"). First record of rowboat is from 1538 (cf. Du. roeiboot).

row

"noisy commotion," 1746, Cambridge University slang, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to rousel "drinking bout" (1602), a shortened form of carousal. Klein suggests a back-formation from rouse (n.), mistaken as a plural (cf. pea from pease).

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